Tangible Quotes - Page 11

• Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Solitude, Enemy, Dangerous

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.21

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• More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Lapses, Gains, Moral

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• I always have issues. I'm a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust - you adopt it from being a New Yorker. I think trust is something that comes from the gut. I don't think it's anything specific. I don't think it's anything tangible.

  Vin Diesel

  Thinking, Issues, Guts

  "Vin Diesel on Vin and Babylon A.D". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. August 28, 2008.

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• What is magical and mystifying to me about style is not that by seeing we can believe. It is that eventually, we can believe, because we can see we can embrace change the more we can make it tangible.

  Stacy London

  Believe, Style, Embrace

  Stacy London (2012). “The Truth About Style”, p.208, Penguin

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• The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.

  J. J. Abrams

  Real, Magic, Feels

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• Women have an extraordinary ability to withdraw from the sexual relationship, to immunize themselves against it, in such a way that their men can be left feeling let down and insulted without having anything tangible to complain of.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Feelings, Complaining

  Doris Lessing (1973). “The Grass is Singing”, p.66, Heinemann

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• The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Stress, Elements

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.

  Ben Stein

  Struggle, Successful, Hands

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Disappear, Source, Rationality

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.35, Routledge

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• There is a divide in our culture between people who want to see evidence of a politiсian's knowledge and worldliness, and people for whom "git 'er done" actions, as you put it, provide tangible proof of the ability to lead. I don't know how developed that idea is.

  Libby Copeland

  Ideas, People, Culture

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The most obvious risk was that the Russian speaking population was threatened and that the threats were absolutely specific and tangible. This is what made Crimean residents, the people who live there, think about their future and ask Russia for help. This is what guided our decision.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Russia, People

  Vladimir Putin during a Question-and-Answer Session, www.washingtonpost.com. April 17, 2014.

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• The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life.

  Yves Klein

  Mean, Reality, Blue

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962". Book by Yves Klein, p. 47, 1974.

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• In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Girl, Mother, Strong

  "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" by Albert Speer, (p. 221), 1970.

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• By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.

  Marsden Hartley

  Ideas, Would Be, Deities

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 44, 1988.

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• What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore their study was untainted by inaccuracies of perception. This meant he could discover truths which were independent of opinion of prejudice and which were more absolute than any previous knowledge.

  Simon Singh

  Independent, Mathematical Logic, Ideas

  "Fermat's Last Theorem". Book by Simon Singh, 1997.

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• It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.

  Anna Pavlova

  Humanity, Progress, Ugly

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• It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Struggle, Character, Ideas

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• Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to trading meats and furs. We won't need an abstraction, a dollar bill, but real tangible goods to survive.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Real, Asteroids, Digital

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz., words) and on the main terms connecting them. Words, or their inscriptions, unlike points, miles, classes and the rest, are tangible objects of the size so popular in the marketplace, where men of unlike conceptual schemes communicate at their best. The strategy is one of ascending to a common part of two fundamentally disparate conceptual schemes, the better to discuss the disparate foundations. No wonder it helps in philosophy.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Party

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• My education was a huge influence. I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods, and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.

  Roberto Aguire

  Thinking, Giving, People

  "Interview: Roberto Aguire Talks Boulevard (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. August 4, 2015.

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• Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. "I ain't what I ought to be. I ain't what I'm going to be, but I'm not what I was.

  Stella Chess

  School, People, Growth

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• I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it.

  Anis Mojgani

  Passion, Heart, People

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• Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it.

  E. B. White

  Wise, Dark, Gleam

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• The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Plato, Essence, Numbers

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• ... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Prayer, Grief, Tired

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